The Inspector General of Police, Olukayode Egbetokun, has ordered the posting of Assistant Commissioners of Police to head the Intelligence Department of the Police Force at Zonal and State Commands level Nationwide.

Egbetokun’s directive is to improve and enhance the effectiveness of the Intelligence Department at every level of the Force as a panacea to addressing the crime rate in the country, in line with his vision statement.

According to him, the newly appointed Senior Officers must deploy all intelligence-based assets in combating crimes and criminality in their respective areas of responsibility.

He charged them to entrench professionalism and apply their wealth of experience in the course of discharging their duties towards strengthening the already existing intelligence architecture of the Force.

The IGP had on assumption of duty reactivated the Presidential approval to upgrade the Force Intelligence Bureau to the status of a Department with the appointment of DIG Habu Sanni, as the DIG in charge of the new Department of Force Intelligence.

Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi who disclosed this in a statement, said the posting is with immediate effect.